A clockwork orange

Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.

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Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.Ler mais...

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"A brilliant novel... a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds." "Looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel." "I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr. Burgess has done here - the fact that this is also a very funny book may pass unnoticed." -- William S. Burroughs "A terrifying and marvelous book." -- Roald DahlLer mais...